# The Trial

The Trial by Franz Kafka has 83,862 words.

## At a glance

1925 novel by Franz Kafka.

- **Author:** [Franz Kafka](https://musael.com/books/authors/franz-kafka.md) (1883–1924)
- **First published:** 1925
- **Original language:** German
- **Genre:** literary fiction
- **Readers:** adult

## How long it takes to read

- **Words:** 83,862
- **Reading time:** 5 h 35 min (at 250 words a minute)
- **Listening time:** 9 h 1 min (audiobook pace, 155 words a minute)

| Reading speed | Whole book | At 30 minutes a day |
| --- | --- | --- |
| 200 wpm | 6 h 59 min | 14 days |
| 250 wpm | 5 h 35 min | 12 days |
| 300 wpm | 4 h 40 min | 10 days |

## Read or listen

The Trial is in the public domain: these editions are free to download, read and share.

- Project Gutenberg: https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/7849

## Counted from the text

Automated estimates from the selected Project Gutenberg text; it may include a preface or notes.

- Words in the text: 83,862
- Chapters: 10
- Dialogue: 39% of the words are inside quotation marks
- Average sentence: 17.9 words

## Where the numbers come from

The word count comes from the sources below.

- https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/7849 (word count)
- https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q36097
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Trial
- https://openlibrary.org/works/OL43043884W
- https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/7849

Checked on 2026-10-27. Page counts change from edition to edition.

Source: https://musael.com/books/the-trial